The sentences end with question marks. They’re said with pure exclamation. Brief, upbeat, pregame queries from a 61-year-old who has devoted more than half his life to a sport that once nearly broke him.

A cruel, unforgiving Astros-like rebuild with the Baltimore Orioles from 2007-10 left Trembley locked inside a dark house dealing with symptoms of depression when the major league lights were suddenly turned off. Three years after learning he’d been fired by seeing his name roll across an ESPN sports ticker, Trembley still refuses to believe daily …